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Hundreds Of New Viruses With Enormous Genomes Blur The Boundaries Of Life

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Defining life is hard. Plants, animals, and amoebas certainly fit, but what about viruses or prions? For those who put viruses on the non-living side of that division, things just got a bit awkward with the discovery of hundreds of viruses whose genome resembles bacteria. Bacteriophages are bacteria-infecting viruses. Some have been used in place of antibiotics, but their diversity is so great we’ve barely scratched the surface. Now, a study published in Nature has turned up 351 bacteriophage species with genomes at least four times as large as most members of their class, almost four…

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Mistreated Wendy’s worker quits, makes escape via drive-thru window

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Weve all dreamed of quitting a bad job in dramatic, satisfying ways. Most of us never summon up the courage to follow through with our fantasies, but one TikTok teen has more pluck than the rest of us. TikTok user @mariakukulak documented her recent split from a local Wendys, and people online are in awe. Its not just how it ended, but the entire way she went about the process that drew people in. At the start of the almost minute-long TikTok, Maria explained her intent. Its hard for me…

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To My Married Daughter, With Love

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ShareTweetPin Dear Married Daughter, First of all, I am amazed that I am old enough to be writing this letter. When you were young, and sitting in the grocery cart while we shopped, people would stop me and comment on how cute you were and I would smile and thank them. They would often look at me and say, “Don’t blink. It goes fast.” I felt sorry for them because they were not standing with their with a child, and they had a look of longing in their eyes that…

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Amy Klobuchar Vore Is Now Part of the 2020 Election Cycle

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Brace yourself. Election season is here, and the road to 2020s presidential nomination is already paved in cringey political cartoons. Things are getting so bad that the internet can no longer tell when a comic is satirical, heartfelt, or something right in between. Tuesday afternoon, Twitter account Cursed Boomer Images uploaded what appears to be a political cartoon depicting Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Ivanka Trump. In a Facebook post shared with the comic, Klobuchar is seemingly shown wearing a blazer and adult diaper as she devours a miniaturized Trump.…

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Starbucks Is Selling The Prettiest Pastel Cold Cups & Tumblers This Spring

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Instagram/TotallyTheBombDotCom Starbucks’ Spring 2020 Cold Cups & Tumblers Are A Pastel Dream By Lara Walsh March 4, 2020 Now that the end of winter is just around the corner, Starbucks is ensuring the leap into spring flavors is an extra colorful one. Along with the recent launch of a handful of brightly-hued drinks, the coffee giant released some seriously photogenic drink containers to complement your beverage of choice. Judging from the photos alone, it’s safe to say Starbucks’ spring 2020 cold cups and tumblers will make you want to ensure…

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My Kid Got an Out-of-School Suspension, And I Couldnt Be Prouder of Him

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ShareTweetPin “Five days of Out of School Suspension (OSS) for beating up the kid that has been tormenting and bullying him since middle school. I know as a parent I’m suppose to be upset with him for resorting to violence or getting suspended, but I’m not. Not even a little bit. For years the school has failed Drew. When this kid has constantly threatened to beat Drew up along with several of his friends, the school did nothing. When this kid followed Drew down the hall threatening him and making…

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Here’s Where To Get All The Super Pretty Spring Starbucks Merch

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TotallyTheBombDotCom/Instagram Here’s Where To Buy Starbucks’ Spring 2020 Cold Cups & Tumblers For A Seasonal Sip By Cianna Garrison March 6, 2020 With spring on the horizon, Starbucks didn’t waste any time giving customers some pastel-colored goods to celebrate the change of season. This year, the brand has its merchandise decked out in pinks, blues, corals, and yellows. Here’s where to buy Starbucks’ spring 2020 cold cups and tumblers to hold your favorite sips. The Starbucks’ spring 2020 collection includes everything from tumblers to ceramic mugs. The goods started rolling…

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The Problem With Nice Guy Jesus

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ShareTweetPin You’ve definitely heard it in the songs. Take for instance The Killers, who make Jesus seem like a guy you’d like to bring home to mom & dad: He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus but he talks like a gentleman like you imagined when you were young Think about it for a second…how closely does this line up with the Jesus presented to us in the Bible? -He’s homeless. -He is relatively ugly. Become A Contributor -He’s poor—to the point that women are traveling with & supporting Him.…

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Joaquin Phoenix rescued a cow and her calf one day after Oscars win

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On Feb. 10, he headed down to have a conversation with the head of the slaughterhouse, Anthony Di Maria. Despite clearly different perspectives, Phoenix believes the two were able to become friends. The slaughterhouse already had more gentle guidelines than many others. Di Maria told Phoenix that calves and their mothers are never separated at his facility, and all of his cows die in 60 seconds or less when being harvested. My hope is, as we watch baby Indigo grow up with her mom Liberty at Farm Sanctuary, that well…

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Mike Huckabee’s defense of Trump’s coronavirus response will make you nauseous

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Amid criticisms of President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus outbreak, his proxies are resorting to increasingly bizarre ways to defend him. Trump has been criticized for letting politics, not science, dictate his administrations response to the virus thats quickly spreading across the globe. Trump has contradicted his own health officials in public statements about coronavirus and put (non-medical doctor) Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the outbreak and made him a gatekeeper for communications about it. Meanwhile, a whistleblower has claimed that federal health employees who interacted with…

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Big meditation money, new VC funds, and how do you value Airbnb?

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. After having a good time with NEA’s Rick Yang last week, we thought we’d bring on another venture capitalist. So this week Danny and I had Elliott Robinson from Bessemer swing over for the show. As it turned out, he was about as correct as guest as possible as not only did the topics of the week line up with where he invests, he’s also friends with some of the folks that we…

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Hollywood Sex Therapist Amie Harwick Plunges to Death, Ex-Boyfriend Arrested

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High-profile Hollywood therapist Amie Harwicka former Playboy model who was once engaged to comedian Drew Careyplunged to her death during a confrontation with an ex-boyfriend, the LAPD said. Police arrested Gareth Pursehouse, 41, on suspicion of murder after Harwick, 37, was found gravely injured on the ground under a third-floor balcony at her Hollywood Hills home early Saturday. She later died at the hospital. Harwick, 38, had recently expressed fear of 6-foot-4-inch Pursehouse, but a restraining order she obtained against him had expired, authorities said. A statement from police said…

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